I wanted to bring Polybit.ch's translation capabilities to JavaBlog.com without creating a direct dependency between them. Apache Kafka, a message broker, decouples their communication so neither project depends upon the other.

This is the final post in my "building a blog from scratch with Claude doing the coding" series. The blog works. Functional requirements are done. The Non Functional Requirements that matter even more are also done "ish".

Internal debate about the role of Jakarta Validation Annotations in the domain. Using the "everything is an object" philosophy where Title, Slug, Content, and Author each have their own record.

In Spring Boot 4, dependencies like Flyway are configured differently. Auto-configuration works without additional properties. If your Coding Assistant didn't configure it correctly, you will learn why here.

Converting a monolithic Spring Boot application to multi-module hexagonal architecture with domain, application, adapter-rest, adapter-persistence, and bootstrap modules. Adding Flyway migrations and PostgreSQL for production with H2 for tests.

Connecting the Angular frontend to the Java API backend. Deployed via Github Action to create Dockerized container and then use SSH to copy container and deploy to api.javablog.com

First steps setting up SEO for javablog.com with Claude AI assistance.

How I built this blog using Angular, Azure Static Web Apps, and Anthropic Claude.